Sad-iron



(No Model.)

G. W. MENOUGH.

SAD IRON.

No.l 328,800. Pateted Oct. '20, 1885.

IINTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

GEORGE MENOUGH, OF VELLSVILLE, OHIO.

ySAD-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,800, dated October 20, 1885.

Application filed March Q9, 1884.

To all whom, t may concern: v

Beit known that I, GEORGE WV. MENOUGH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Wellsville, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sad-Irons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which Will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure lis a perspective view ofmy improved sad-iron. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the body of the iron with the detachable handle removed. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan of the plate which forms part of the removable handle, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through the middle of the complete sad-iron.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

My invention has relation to that class of sad-irons which are provid-ed with detachable or removable handles, so that one handle may serve the purpose of a number of irons; and it consists in the improved construction of a sad-iron of that type, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, A denotes the body of the iron, which has a plated bottom, a, and may be of any suitable size, shape, weight, and material. This body is cast with two depressions or recesses, one in the front part and one in the rear part, on the top of the iron, as shown at B and C, respectively. Between and in a line with these recesses are two upwardly-projecting studs,D D, having projecting lips or hooks E at their upper ends.

F is a plate corresponding in shape or gen-v eral outline to the top of the iron, and provided on its under side with two downwardlyprojecting lugs, G and H, which are recessed or socketed, as shown at h h, to receive the handle-bars I I, the lower ends of which are permanently fastened by suitable means in the said sockets.

Between the down wardly-proj ectin g lugs are two slots or openings, J J, between which is a stud or pin, K, forming a pivot for the circular Serial No. 126,070. (No model.)

'disk or plate L uponthetop of plate F. This disk is provided with a knob or handle, M, for turning it, and has two slots or openings, N, adapted to vregister with the apertures J in plate F. The slots N have extensions O, and are bordered on the outside by wedge-shaped projectionsPP,inclined in opposite directions upon the periphery of disk L. This disk, pivoted upon its stud or vertical spindle K, rests in a circular depression or recess, Q, in the top of plate F, which said recess is provided on one side with a stop, B. Thus it will be seen that the slotted disk L may be moved or rotated by means of its knob or handle M forward and back between the stop R and the handle-bar I at the rear end of the sad-iron.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings, the manner of attaching or detaching the handle will be readily understood. By turning disk Lso that its slots or apertures register with the apertures in plate F the latter may be placed upon the top of the body A, with its lugs G H projecting down into the recesses E and O,respect ively, the hooked studs D E projecting up through the apertures. By then turning disk L so that its knob will strike against the rear handle-bar I the disk will be moved so as to bring its Wedges to bear against the under side ofthe hooks E E, and thus lock the handle rmly in place upon the top of the body A. To detach the handle, the knob is simply turned in the opposite direction until it strikes the fixed stop R, when plate F may readily be lifted offofthe top of iron, the hooked studsD E slipping through the extensions or enlargements O in the disk-slots N.

I am aware that sadirons have been made with the handle attached to a plate provided with a horizontally-pivoted cam-plate adapted to be turned so as to catch under a hooked lug projecting from the upper side of the body of the iron through a perforation in the plate, and I do not wish to claim such construction, broadly;but I am not aware that such cam-plate has been provided with wedge-shaped projections adapted to wedge under hooked lugs upon the iron, which wedge-shaped projections facilitate the releasing of the plate from the iron when the hooked lugs have contracted upon the projections by the cooling oft of the IOC iron, causing them to clamp the cam-plate more firmly than when the iron was hot, and consequently expanded;` neither am I aware that the ends of the lugs in which the handle is fastened have projected below the surface of the handle-plate fitted into recesses in the top of the iron7 whereby the handle-plate is Yprevented from playing upon the body of the iron; and

I therefore claim- 1. The combination, with the body of a sadiron having recesses in its upper face and provided with upwardly-projecting hooked studs, of a handle-plate fitting upon the body of the iron, and having the lugs into which the ends of the handle are secured projecting into the recesses in the body of the iron, and having a cam-plate for engaging the hooked lugs, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

GEORGE w. MENOUGH.

Witnesses :V d

J Ess MOGREGOR, J AMES P. GALLAHER. 

